How can I run VSTest.Console.exe without VS installed

Question

_{Monday, March 17, 2014 9:35 PM}

Hi, I have a coded UI test project generated in Visual Studio 2013 Premium. Of course the output is a dll file. I want to use VSTest.Console.exe to run the test dll file on a machine which does NOT have any Visual Studio installed. Is there any SDK to be used for this kind of purpose? Thanks.

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_{Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:44 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi,

Installing Visual Studio 2013 Test Agent（http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=40750）will install vstest.console.exe which you can find from %Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 1.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow folder

After you install it, you can go to the cmd prompt and type the path of vstest.console.exe to get vstest.console.exe and then use it to run test.

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_{Wednesday, August 24, 2016 2:54 PM}

It works as far TFS/MTM DataSource is not present on the test method. For me it fails on the method which tries to connect MTM DataSource with following error:-

Error details: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Controller, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

I tried to put tfs credentials in vault but did not help.

_{Friday, September 30, 2016 8:19 AM}

Hi,

And what about the license? Do i need a license for installing and running the VS2013 Test Agent on a different machine?

regards

_{Tuesday, November 8, 2016 10:47 PM}

Hi,

I've installed Test Agent but when I try to run my tests, I get this error

"Class Initialization method MyTestSuite.ClassInit threw exception. System.NullReferenceException: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." at the following line:

        [ClassInitialize]
        public static void ClassInit(TestContext context)
        {
            baseUrl = context.Properties["webSiteUrl"].ToString();  <<<<<<<<
        }

Is it missing the TestContext? If so, how do I fix this?

Thanks in advance!